It is a multicast address in the reserved multicast address range (224.0.0.x)

>From here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses

it is assigned to the mDNS protocol.

Probably best to google this - first hit is http://www.multicastdns.org/

HTH 
Luuk
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:34:28 +1300, David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, we can see the the DNS lookups are working in both directions
> (forward and reverse), but when I use ping it does something with
> 224.0.0.251.  Isn't that a multicast address?  I don't know anything
> about multicast (if that's what it is).  What does this mean?

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